Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19

and expected. Sheriff Matson appoint
ed several deputy sheriHs under the
immediate personal supervision Of
Conrad Foiz, warden of the Jail, to adj
just the nooses or the men. They APP
proacked their doom without evincing
any trepidition, appearing all econ
ciled TO offer up their lives for the pro-
motion OF the cause in which they had
conspired. A strange and solemn
hush ~pervaded the entire interior OF the
Jail and the precincts where the dread
scene was to be enacted. Everyone
spoke in whispers. All the usual oc-
cupants Of the numberless cells in the
Jail that could M removed were sent
10 Joliet or confined elsewhere. The
interior was therefore ncarly empty,
and q hollow and re~sounding echo fol-
lowed the steps of the jail officials en-
gagged in the ghastly preparations.
A subsidiary scaffold had TO be con-
structed in view of the in%closure of
Fielden and Schwab in the general
death sentence, although it was known
that special efforts would be made in
their behalf to induce Governor Ogles-
by TO change their sentence to impris-
oDment for life. No description could
fairly convey a picture OF the agonizlng
scenes within The jail this morning,
whoE for the last time the wives and
relatives of the condemned were grant
ed their last and parting interview. All
the wealth of affection and devotion
cherished by the wives and children OF
the condemned men and by the men
themselves for their offspring, found at
last q mute, solemn and fearful expires
siCn that moved the stoutest hearts Of
those who witnessed it and many were
tuin to turn away with bedimmed
eyes from the sight of such grief us
this Ii showed that love is humsnity's
fGst refuge after all. The manifesta-
ton of this sublime compassion ap-
peared 20 exalt tie men foC the mo
ment above aud beyond the swful fate
to which they were 20 tread within so
brief n time and melted the sturdiost
of them 10 the geE:leness Of a child.
1t was not all quiet though within these
limits, for the soothing and moaning OF
the women and children brought to the
last extremity OF despair and helpless
ness, could BE heard ever outside the
great iron door leading 20 the Jail. Al
last the dread momen. arrived wheg
the last words were to be spOkeR,
the last kiss exchanged betweer
those whose lives fer SO Macy
years had been undivided and the Last
fond and lingering leok Of weeping
children and women was taken before
the afflicted ard bereaved group de-
sceRded into the open court yard rs
none save the representatives Of the
press, the lawyers who had been asso-
ciated in the defense sld those reaIired
to be present at all state executions in
conformity with the iGw were admitted
within the precincts seS apart for the
execution. Throughout the trying
time of the ren's long Imprisonment
Conrad Folk, the %jaiior, his son, one of
the executive officers of the jGil and
the chief cie-k Ben Price. have done
all in their power through considerable
humane motives to mitigate tie rigors
of the dynarliters' protracteG confine-
ment.
TEG DROP FALS AT 1901.
CHICAGOr>To 1L-Parson, EDgel,
Spies and Fischer were hsneed. The
drop fell at-2:01.
The condemned matn slept well and
arose early. Everything is geuiet and
there are nc'signs OF unusual excite
ment.